Hope you are all ok. I just dropped by to let you know that I started a new project for students of Básico 1 and 2. Feel free to visit and comment on the new:
Hope you like it!
Showing posts with label Speaking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Speaking. Show all posts
13/04/2009
08/06/2008
10 "English things" to do this summer
Are you short of ideas on how to keep you English alive this summer? Here you are a few:
1. Watch short videos and do exercises in Lingual.net and Yolango (you have to sign in for the second one, but it's worth it).
2. Find an exchange to speak and write to. Some possible websites are Shared Talk and My Language Exchange.
3. Do an online course in Livemocha or Mango Languages.
4. Revise English grammar with comics here. Make comics yourself here or here.
5. Are you brave enough? Read and listen to stories here or here.
6. Test and learn vocabulary here: The Internet Picture Dictionary.
7. In the mood for playing? Then try these games at BBC and Wordpower. Play Scrambled Sentences here.
8. Would you like to practice your Writing skills? Try this website to create a fairy tale, make a poem here or visit this site to get general advice on writing, tools and games.
9. Want to go a step further? Learn what Proofreading is here.
10. Finally, why don't you go back and read old posts in this blog? I'm sure you didn't have time to check it all. Scroll down and try clicking on "Older Posts" to access what has been published all year. You can also look for posts in the "Topics" section on the left.
Enjoy your summer and good luck with English.
Love,
Laura
1. Watch short videos and do exercises in Lingual.net and Yolango (you have to sign in for the second one, but it's worth it).
2. Find an exchange to speak and write to. Some possible websites are Shared Talk and My Language Exchange.
3. Do an online course in Livemocha or Mango Languages.
4. Revise English grammar with comics here. Make comics yourself here or here.
5. Are you brave enough? Read and listen to stories here or here.
6. Test and learn vocabulary here: The Internet Picture Dictionary.
7. In the mood for playing? Then try these games at BBC and Wordpower. Play Scrambled Sentences here.
8. Would you like to practice your Writing skills? Try this website to create a fairy tale, make a poem here or visit this site to get general advice on writing, tools and games.
9. Want to go a step further? Learn what Proofreading is here.
10. Finally, why don't you go back and read old posts in this blog? I'm sure you didn't have time to check it all. Scroll down and try clicking on "Older Posts" to access what has been published all year. You can also look for posts in the "Topics" section on the left.
Enjoy your summer and good luck with English.
Love,
Laura
23/05/2008
How to pronounce -ed endings correctly
How's your pronunciation these days? Do you feel you need some more practice with final -ed in verbs?
Some useful sites for you:
- Short interactive lesson here.
- Explanation + audio here.
- Drag and drop exercise here.
- BBC Grammar Challenge here (again!).
Hope you enjoy them.
Take care and have a nice weekend.
Some useful sites for you:
- Short interactive lesson here.
- Explanation + audio here.
- Drag and drop exercise here.
- BBC Grammar Challenge here (again!).
Hope you enjoy them.
Take care and have a nice weekend.
03/05/2008
Health Websites
Hi there again!
Do you remember the activities we did last week? You can do some more on the Internet. Try the following websites:
- Click here if you want to access an interactive site for children: you can read about getting ready for hospital, getting treated and getting around. Lots of vocabulary and fun activities!
- A similar interactive site for children here.
- General health vocabulary + images here and here.
- Would you like to have the transcriptions to the words read aloud? Healthy habits read aloud (karaoke style) here.
- An interactive tale about going to the doctor here.
- Conversations at the doctor's here.
- How to make an appointment here.
- A telephone conversation here.
Hope you enjoy!
Take care.
Do you remember the activities we did last week? You can do some more on the Internet. Try the following websites:
- Click here if you want to access an interactive site for children: you can read about getting ready for hospital, getting treated and getting around. Lots of vocabulary and fun activities!
- A similar interactive site for children here.
- General health vocabulary + images here and here.
- Would you like to have the transcriptions to the words read aloud? Healthy habits read aloud (karaoke style) here.
- An interactive tale about going to the doctor here.
- Conversations at the doctor's here.
- How to make an appointment here.
- A telephone conversation here.
Hope you enjoy!
Take care.
Chocolate cake (by Cristina Belver)
Thanks for sharing the recipe with us, Cristina. Here it goes:
I’LL TELL TOU HOW TO MAKE A CHOCOLATE CAKE
YOU’LL NEED:
1/2 cup of dark cocoa
1/2 cup of boiled water
1 teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate
2 cups of sugar
2 eggs
2 ½ cups of flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder
¾ cups of milk
INSTRUCTIONS
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees
- Grease a cake recipient
- Put cocoa, boiled water, salt and bicarbonate in a little bowl
- In a separated bowl beat the eggs, butter with sugar, mix with flour and baking powder
- Mix all this with the cocoa
- Pour into prepared recipient
- Bake at 180 º C until a knife inserted in centre comes out clean, approximately for 30 minutes
- When the cake has room temperature, place cut in half horizontally and whip with dulce de leche.
- Put chocolate on the top and around the cake
- Put the cake into the fridge for one hour.
If you prefer you can add rhum to the dulce de leche and chopped walnut on the top
27/04/2008
Work on your pronunciation
What? Are you saying that you don't understand the phonetic symbols yet? That you find English pronunciation difficult? That there's no way to guess how to pronounce a word?No more excuses!
Now you have YAKIToMe! A wonderful site that speaks back to you. All you have to do is:
- register (it's free)
- type (or copy and paste) a text and push the PLAY button.
- or upload a file (doc., pdf., txt.) and push the PLAY button.
- and listen! They will read your text aloud with a nice, understandable pronunciation.
Finally, if you want, you can also convert it into an audio file and take it with you in your mp3 player. Isn't it great?
Hope you make the most of it.
13/01/2008
How to speak better English
Hello my dear students,
For those who are anxious about the speaking test this week (and for those who aren't!)... I found an article in a colleague's blog that you'll find interesting. It's called "Cómo ganar fluidez al hablar inglés" (the article is in Spanish!), and it has nice tips for you.
Click here to read it.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
For those who are anxious about the speaking test this week (and for those who aren't!)... I found an article in a colleague's blog that you'll find interesting. It's called "Cómo ganar fluidez al hablar inglés" (the article is in Spanish!), and it has nice tips for you.
Click here to read it.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
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